Best 42 quotes in «lunatic quotes» category

What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't.

The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

There is apt to be a lunatic fringe among the votaries of any forward movement.

You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one.

Huysmans takes the old trope of moon-as-woman and replaces its romantic connotations with decadent ones: the moon here is woman as clamorous lunatic, as convulsive epileptic.

You stole a boat,” she snapped. “What am I doing with you, you boat-stealing lunatic?

A man told me that my thoughts are opinions, so I asked back if he knows the difference between facts and opinions. He couldn’t differentiate them. And I had to conclude I was talking with an arrogant lunatic. He did admit to be arrogant, but the conversation was over before I could prove him lunatic as well.

As far as Samson was concerned I was just another foreigner in pursuit of a lunatic quest.

By Gad,' exclaimed Welsh, 'I’d manage a nunnery for £500!' 'I daresay you would, but a suicidal, and possibly homicidal, lunatic isn’t a nunnery.' Welsh looked at his friend with diminished respect.

Dost thou Not feel them slip, How cold! how cold! the moon's Thin wavering finger-tips, along Thy throat?

FËDOR Mikhailovich Dostoevski, the Russian novelist, said one time that, "One sacred memory from childhood is perhaps the best education." I can think of another quickie education for a child, which, in its way, is almost as salutary: Meeting a human being who is tremendously respected by the adult world, and realizing that that person is actually a malicious lunatic.

You sweet…beautiful…lunatic,” he heard himself mutter.

I thought about how I had now let a self-proclaimed lunatic into my house twice and considered the possibility that my life needed sorting out.

It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic.

It may come as an extraordinary shock to you but you're the only woman who has ever succeeded in getting under my skin. It could be because you're a raving lunatic.

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.

Soon enough the tears came but of course nobody came down to see if she was all right, it was just the slut in the kitchen who'd ruined their lives, getting drunk of neat gin and howling for her lost lunatic offer.

One either cares what others think about him, or cares what others think he thinks about them. If you want to find someone who doesn't care in the slightest what anyone thinks, try a lunatic asylum.

Over intellect will make you a genius, over emotions will make you a lunatic.

Please say that my line is to make to smile the lunatic who has shown no sign of mirth for many months.

Why did you revive me?” Alecto repeated. “Well… uh, well….” Mandy hesitated, her voice full of sudden misery. “They say there are five stages of grief, you know… five stages. denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Not in any particular order. Anyhow, I denied your death, I was angry about it, I bargained with Mearth to try and get her to un-bury your site and I was depressed about the whole ordeal. One thing I just froze up on though was acceptance. I just couldn’t accept your death. It was really cruel the way you died, and I missed you so much… Mearth, my parents, the cops, Dr. Pottie, they all thought I was crazy. When people think you’re crazy, that label automatically dehumanizes you, because people can use it to discredit everything you say with, “oh, pay no mind to her, she’s just this crazy lunatic with a dead imaginary friend.” I just wanted to do something, anything to make it all go away, and I decided that I wanted to revive you.

The so-called poet with his vague dreams and ideals is indeed no better than a harmless lunatic; the true poet is the worker, who grips life's throat and wrings out its secret, who selects austerely and composes concisely, whose work is as true and clean as razor-steel, albeit its sweep is vaster and swifter than the sun's!

They say the crazies come out at night. I say the crazies come out during election year: Elections have the power to turn once seemingly normal people into certified loonies.

We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough.

There are those lunatic people who always prophesy the end of the world. I belong to them.

THESEUS More strange than true. I never may believe These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold: That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen’s beauty in a brow of Egypt. The poet’s eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination That if it would but apprehend some joy It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

When it comes to correct English, there's no one in charge; the lunatics are running the asylum.

When you are gunning to be like other people, you are foolishly repeating their mistakes, and the worst of it all is that you can't even correct yours.

When you are in the company of lunatics, behave like a lunatic. When you are in the company of intelligentsias, speak with brilliance...that is how a chameleon behaves, the territory changes it, and it adapts to the changes.

Does it ever occur to you, Mama, that my grandfather is a lunatic?

A sure sign of a lunatic is that sooner or later, he brings up the Templars.

Christ was either liar, lunatic, or Lord!

He groaned and I saw his face. "Curran!" I would've preferred a homicidal lunatic. Oh, wait...

Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?

Embrace your inner lunatic.

I'm just some lunatic macaroni mushroom, is that it?

I may have been a complete lunatic, but I was a complete lunatic with manners.

He shook his head. He didn't know. He couldn't tell when he had woken fully. He walked to the horses. They definitely seemed alarmed. But then, they would. After all, he had just leapt to his feet unexpectedly, waving his saxe knife around like a lunatic.

I shouldn't make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum.

Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.

Occasionally, I go off the rails. I once nearly killed somebody once - it wasn't funny. I am a lunatic. The pressure of work, the pressure - everyone has a stop valve, and I don't have one.

Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.